78 THE CULTURE 



that the worms may be rear'd before tli^ 

 weather grows violently hot, which is very 

 apt to injure them^ therefore the earlier 

 you begin will be the better, without re- 

 garding the influence of the moon j befides, 

 as in fome climates you may rear two 

 broods in one fummer; this is another rea- 

 fon that you fliould begin as early as you 

 can, that your fecond brood may .have 

 finifh'd their bufinefs before the weather 

 begins to grow cold. 



Having fixed upon your time of hatching, 

 obferve that all thofe diredions which fol- 

 low, concerning the manner of doing it 

 fhould be purfued in a chamber well clofed^ 

 and fecured from cold and wind ; and ob* 

 ferve that the bags and boxes which fhall 

 be hereafter mentioned for putting the eggs 

 to hatch in, lliould be made as warm as 

 your fkin before you do this ; and when 

 you ufe the boxes they may be lined with 

 a piece of filk or cotton ftufE 



If the weather fliould happen to grow 

 cold or moill, after you have begun to 

 hatch your eggs, you mufl be more care- 

 ful to guard againfl the injuries of it ; 

 you mull continue the fame degree of 

 warmth as near as you can, and not remit 

 I of 



